Re: Email (mod_perl) Apache module?

2000-12-17 Thread George Sanderson
At 09:32 AM 12/15/00 -0300, you wrote: >Jeremy Howard wrote: >> IMHO, the best open source WebMail servers are PHP based > > I have this dangling idea of building a TWIG lookalike (in Perl), with >a 'plug-in'/'module' structure, so I may write the email client, and >others fill with their de

Re: Email (mod_perl) Apache module?

2000-12-16 Thread Michael
> On Fri Dec 15 11:28:03 2000 -0800 brian moseley wrote: > > > On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Perrin Harkins wrote: > > > > > Is there a reason you don't want to just hack on WING? > > > It's a pretty powerful system and it was designed for > > > mod_perl. Look it up on CPAN. > > > > it's an option, b

Re: Email (mod_perl) Apache module?

2000-12-15 Thread Wim Kerkhoff
Leon Brocard wrote: > > Jeremy Howard sent the following bits through the ether: > > > IMHO, the best open source WebMail servers are PHP based: > > In Perl, there's also WING: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~mbeattie/wing/ and > my oh-my-god-it's-still-in-development-and-I'm-still-breaking- > the-CVS-v

Re: Email (mod_perl) Apache module?

2000-12-15 Thread John Saylor
Hi - Original Message - From: "George Sanderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 22:47 Subject: RFC: Email (mod_perl) Apache module? > The module would allow the users to read and send email. > Now that would be advocacy;-) No, that would be spam. -- \js

Re: Email (mod_perl) Apache module?

2000-12-15 Thread Robin Berjon
At 12:23 15/12/2000 -0800, brian moseley wrote: >On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Robin Berjon wrote: > >> Wing has been widely tested in the field iirc, it's >> probably a good idea to base anything in that domain on >> it. > >possibly. groupware applications aren't that complex really, >tho (except for cale

Re: Email (mod_perl) Apache module?

2000-12-15 Thread brian moseley
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, martin langhoff wrote: > Perrin Harkins wrote: > > > Is there a reason you don't want to just hack on WING? > > I've seen TWIG and its *very* clever, if ugly. It'll let you > authenticate against a lot of things. Use IMAP or POP. Use News. Use > mysql, Postgres, MySQL, or n

Re: Email (mod_perl) Apache module?

2000-12-15 Thread brian moseley
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Robin Berjon wrote: > Wing has been widely tested in the field iirc, it's > probably a good idea to base anything in that domain on > it. possibly. groupware applications aren't that complex really, tho (except for calendaring and scheduling); the main problem is that they'r

Re: Email (mod_perl) Apache module?

2000-12-15 Thread martin langhoff
Perrin Harkins wrote: > Is there a reason you don't want to just hack on WING? I've seen TWIG and its *very* clever, if ugly. It'll let you authenticate against a lot of things. Use IMAP or POP. Use News. Use mysql, Postgres, MySQL, or none. Use cookies or encoded links for state. It's *very* fl

Re: Email (mod_perl) Apache module?

2000-12-15 Thread Robin Berjon
At 11:28 15/12/2000 -0800, brian moseley wrote: >On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Perrin Harkins wrote: >> Is there a reason you don't want to just hack on WING? >> It's a pretty powerful system and it was designed for >> mod_perl. Look it up on CPAN. > >it's an option, but it's got a large amount of depen

Re: Email (mod_perl) Apache module?

2000-12-15 Thread Ričardas Čepas
On Fri Dec 15 11:28:03 2000 -0800 brian moseley wrote: > On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Perrin Harkins wrote: > > > Is there a reason you don't want to just hack on WING? > > It's a pretty powerful system and it was designed for > > mod_perl. Look it up on CPAN. > > it's an option, but it's got a larg

Re: Email (mod_perl) Apache module?

2000-12-15 Thread brian moseley
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Perrin Harkins wrote: > Is there a reason you don't want to just hack on WING? > It's a pretty powerful system and it was designed for > mod_perl. Look it up on CPAN. it's an option, but it's got a large amount of dependencies, which makes it a tremendous effort for me to

Re: Email (mod_perl) Apache module?

2000-12-15 Thread clayton cottingham
martin langhoff wrote: > > brian moseley wrote: > > > (speaking as the author of a proprietary mod_perl > > webmail...) > > > > DO IT!! > > my fear is that writing it as a mod_perl app, it'd be terribly niche, > and we wouldn't get it rolling. I'd rather write a bunch of modules, > that

Re: Email (mod_perl) Apache module?

2000-12-15 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, martin langhoff wrote: > I have this dangling idea of building a TWIG lookalike (in Perl), with > a 'plug-in'/'module' structure, so I may write the email client, and > others fill with their desired modules. Is there a reason you don't want to just hack on WING? It's

Re: Email (mod_perl) Apache module?

2000-12-15 Thread brian moseley
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, martin langhoff wrote: > brian moseley wrote: > > > (speaking as the author of a proprietary mod_perl > > webmail...) > > > > DO IT!! > > my fear is that writing it as a mod_perl app, it'd be terribly niche, > and we wouldn't get it rolling. I'd rather write a bunch

Re: Email (mod_perl) Apache module?

2000-12-15 Thread martin langhoff
brian moseley wrote: > (speaking as the author of a proprietary mod_perl > webmail...) > > DO IT!! my fear is that writing it as a mod_perl app, it'd be terribly niche, and we wouldn't get it rolling. I'd rather write a bunch of modules, that can be called from a CGI or a templating sys

Re: Email (mod_perl) Apache module?

2000-12-15 Thread brian moseley
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, martin langhoff wrote: > I have this dangling idea of building a TWIG > lookalike (in Perl), with a 'plug-in'/'module' > structure, so I may write the email client, and others > fill with their desired modules. Anyway, it's a seriuos > undertaking, but it's in my plans

Re: Email (mod_perl) Apache module?

2000-12-15 Thread martin langhoff
Jeremy Howard wrote: > IMHO, the best open source WebMail servers are PHP based true, I am using and patching TWIG quite a lot, and that made me see how messy PHP gets when dealing with libraries and things. It's not nice to see a large app written in PHP... at least not this one. I have

Re: Email (mod_perl) Apache module?

2000-12-15 Thread Leon Brocard
Jeremy Howard sent the following bits through the ether: > IMHO, the best open source WebMail servers are PHP based: In Perl, there's also WING: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~mbeattie/wing/ and my oh-my-god-it's-still-in-development-and-I'm-still-breaking- the-CVS-version-and-it-still-doesn't-have-the-

Re: Email (mod_perl) Apache module?

2000-12-14 Thread Jeremy Howard
George Sanderson wrote: > I think it would be cool to have an email Apache module. I was thinking > that if the URL was something like: > > > http://www.site.com/user/mail > > it would activate the module. > > The module would allow the users to read and send email. Kind of like how > I did Apac

RFC: Email (mod_perl) Apache module?

2000-12-14 Thread George Sanderson
I think it would be cool to have an email Apache module. I was thinking that if the URL was something like: http://www.site.com/user/mail it would activate the module. The module would allow the users to read and send email. Kind of like how I did Apache::FileMan (an Apache web site file man